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Bolivar council enacts emergency ordinance adding police patrol hours, joins Kroger opioid settlement
Summary
On Sept. 5 the Bolivar Village Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance authorizing 15 additional police patrol hours per week and approved participation in the national opioid settlement with Kroger, along with several appropriation and tax-levy measures.
The Bolivar Village Council on Sept. 5 unanimously approved an emergency ordinance adding 15 hours per week of police patrol, a measure council members said will address community concerns about evening public-safety coverage. The ordinance (O-19-2024) passed on a roll-call vote with Diveley, Nussbaumer, Dan Oberlin, Pancoe and White recorded as yes.
Fiscal Officer Maria App told the council earlier in the meeting that receipts for July totaled $120,815.34 and that the August bills — approved at $108,200.61 — included the purchase of a new police cruiser. Maria said the council’s appropriation review found funding to support roughly 60 additional patrol hours per month, a figure consistent with the newly adopted 15 hours-per-week ordinance.
Solicitor Steve Babik presented several other measures. Council passed R-9-2024, authorizing the mayor to execute a participation and release form to settle the village’s claim in the national opioid prescription litigation with Kroger Co.; the motion (moved by Diveley, seconded by Pancoe) passed unanimously. Council also approved R-10-2024 accepting amounts and rates from the budget commission and certifying tax levies to the county auditor (motion by White, seconded by Diveley), and recorded a first reading of R-11-2024, the Public Defender’s Indigent Services Agreement.
Council also approved use of ARPA funds to replace village hall locks and authorized an additional $274.35 to complete that project; the Fiscal Officer’s attendance at Auditor of State training in Twinsburg on Oct. 24 was also approved.
All formal roll-call votes recorded Diveley, Nussbaumer, Dan Oberlin, Pancoe and White as voting yes on the measures presented that evening. The meeting adjourned at 7:45 p.m.; the council scheduled its next regular meeting for Oct. 3, 2024, at 121 Canal Street SE.
Actions and vote tallies in the ordinance and resolutions match the roll calls announced during the meeting and are recorded in the village minutes.
